Quotes About Service

I'm blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He'd have no one to use

You were created to give. You were created to make the lives of others better. Someone needs what you have. Someone needs your love. Someone needs your smile. Someone needs your encouragement and your gifts.

When you focus on not just accomplishing your dreams but on being a blessing, serving others, then you're going to have more joy and you're going to be more fulfilled.

When you serve others, you are serving God. When you do it for them, you're doing it for Him. Jesus said, "If you give a cup of cold water to someone in need, you will surely be rewarded." Every time you serve, God sees it. Every time you help someone else. Every time you sacrifice--you go out of your way to pick up a friend, you get up early to sing in the choir, you stay late to help a coworker--God is keeping the record.

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. COLOSSIANS 3:23–24 NASB

He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done. PROVERBS 19:17

Here's the key: you don't have to have a great gift for God to use you in a great way.

Father, I know that You are a giver, and I want to be like You. Please help me to hold loosely those things You have placed in my hands, and help me to always be ready to give to others in the same way You have given to me.

Get up in the morning with the attitude, "Who can I be a blessing to today? Who can I encourage? Where is there a need that I can meet? If I meet other people's needs, God can meet mine.

Don't worry if you're not getting credit. Don't get discouraged if people don't thank you. God sees your sacrifice. When you give, He gives you more back. When you show someone favor, He shows you more favor.

When you help others rise higher, God will help you rise higher. When you give your time to help others, God will give you more time. When you give your encouragement to someone, God will keep you encouraged.

Assurance that does not lead to a more holy walk is a false assurance. The person whose assurance is well-founded, who experiences tru peace and joy, who is busy in the Lord's service and lives in close fellowship with Him, will lead a holy life. A believer cannot persist in high levels of assurance while he continues in low levels of holiness.

Assurance that does not lead to a more holy walk is a false assurance. The person whose assurance is well-founded, who experiences true peace and joy, who is busy in the Lord's service and lives in close fellowship with Him, will lead a holy life. A believer cannot persist in high levels of assurance while he continues in low levels of holiness.

What is happiness? George Bernard Shaw writes: "This is true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

If my Master is lost, I'll find him. I'll lead him back to himself, because to serve doesn't always mean to follow.

She had a formidable will, the will to live when she'd wanted to die, to rule when she'd only wanted to serve.

God wants to welcome us all into his kingdom, but we need to begin working toward that here in our earthly lives. What we do in the here and now matters beyond the here and now. We waste so much time in this world with fleeting pleasures, and we forget about the things that really matter. Our life pursuits must not be for food that spoils, but toward that which endures to eternal life (John 6:27)

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

James thinks we are all living through something like a denial-of-service attack on our minds. "We're that server, and there's all these things trying to grab our attention by throwing information at us…. It undermines our capacity for responding to anything. It leaves us in a state of either distraction, or paralysis.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.